MCSO: Remains of ASU professor found at landfill; suspects arrested.

Fox 10 Phoenix ^ | July 24, 2020 | Staff

[L.A.Justice]

PHOENIX - Officials with the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office announced that the discovery of the remains of an Arizona State University professor who was last seen in March.

According to a statement released on July 24, the remains of Jun Seok Chae, along with evidence related to the case, was found on July 17 at the Northwest Regional Landfill, which is located in Surprise. A search for Chae's body had been ongoing in the area since May 11, 2020. Chae's remains were positively identified by the Maricopa County Medical Examiner's Office.

“Finding a victim is beyond a needle in a haystack," said Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone. "A lot of agencies came together, hundreds of man-hours in the sun, going through sifting every piece of dirt in that landfill."

Chae, according to officials with MCSO, was reported missing to ASU Police after he did not return home from work.

Officials with MCSO say on March 30, they were contacted by police in Shreveport, Louisiana, they detained three people in a suspicious vehicle call where the car was identified as one that was owned by Chae. Shreveport Police officials later obtained statements from the three people which led them to believe that Chae may have been a victim of homicide.

MCSO investigators later determined that Chae was killed near 7th Street and Carefree Highway, and that Chae was placed in a dumpster by the suspects. Evidence were recovered from the area where Chae was allegedly killed.

Officials with MCSO say two people, identified as 18-year-old Javian Ezell and 18-year-old Gabrielle Austin, have been extradited to Arizona, and have been booked in jail. Both Austin And Ezell are accused of first-degree murder, armed robbery and theft of means of transportation. a $1 million bond has been set for the two.

[L.A.Justice]

RIP to Professor Chae...He got his degree in Korea...Then he came to US for graduate school...

These two thugs lived in some tent in the desert...

They told the detectives that the professor came out to their tent for sex... Detectives refused to say whether they believe that story or not...

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2020/07/28/arizona-state-professor-fatally-bludgeoned-during-robbery-police-say/5527137002/

The guy hit the professor on the head with the hammer...He said that the professor did not hand over the money...

Why did the professor end up in some tent with these two criminals? It is a mystery...

I don't mind if these criminals get death penalty for this murder...

[dead]

I find it pretty hard to believe that anybody on earth wanted to go out to a tent in the desert and have sex with those two. They lived in a tent in the desert - imagine the smells alone.

RIP dude, whether you made horrible choices or not.

[Seruzawa]

The punishment will depend on the color of the perps.

[Fido969]

Sounds more like a carjacking.

[bkopto]

One is a coalburner and the other is unsurprising.

[zeestephen]

Re: “The punishment will depend on the color of the perps.”

Black 18 year old male, white 18 year old girlfriend.

[BwanaNdege]

One of these two appears to have realized that they made some really bad life choices.

The other... well...

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Wow, amazing police detective work!

The victim was last seen in March.
A search for Chae’s body started May 11, 2020.
The body was dumped in a dumpster.
Your assignment is to go through all the garbage dumped in the landfill after March 2020.

Really astonishing. Great work Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office!

[VTenigma]

I can’t even imagine sifting a landfill in Arizona in summer. Props to these investigators.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Which one did he ‘want’ to have sex with?

[an amused spectator]

“Finding a victim is beyond a needle in a haystack," said Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone. "A lot of agencies came together, hundreds of man-hours in the sun, going through sifting every piece of dirt in that landfill."

I want the grove of money-trees that this local government has...

[MHGinTN]

Take a card and place it over the girl's image, first one side of the face then the other. This girl has a very obvious lack of bilateral symmetry. I wonder if she has split personality??? As for the male ... how could she, could either of her personalities be attracted to that?!

[Dr. Sivana]

That is NOT the bad part of Phoenix, either. rural. And for those wondering, it IS the same highway in the Gordon Lightfoot song.

[L.A.Justice]

Which one did he ‘want’ to have sex with?

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The black guy probably was the “pimp”...

[L.A.Justice]

That is NOT the bad part of Phoenix, either. rural. And for those wondering, it IS the same highway in the Gordon Lightfoot song.
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USC is located in South Los Angeles, near Downtown...Not a great neighborhood...

I wonder what the neighborhood around ASU is like...

[Dr. Sivana]

I wonder what the neighborhood around ASU is like...

ASU's main campus is in Tempe, east of Phoenix. It's not bad.